Martin Geisler Online

I’ve just posted some news I wrote on my trip to Hungary. But here’s a little more about the trip.

We we’re lucky that the weather was good. The first two days or so it rained a lot (in fact it was just like in Denmark :-) but then the sun started shining. So the temperature rose to above 30 °C (86 °F) and the water also got warmer. But the temperature also made it somewhat unpleasant to walk around in the cities in the middle of the day.

Perhaps it’s part of this kind of holiday, but I quickly got fed up with driving for two hours to see some sight and then drive back again two hours later. We spend a lot of time on the Hungarian roads — too much I think. I would rather that we had lived right in the middle of Budapest, so that we could have concentrated on that. There must be some sights there.

We lived in a small town called Sukoró by Lake Velence. We went into the nearest large city, Sz�kesfeh�rvár (it took us about three days before we could pronounce it :-) a couple of times. We also tried to drive into Budapest, but was lucky to escape a huge traffic jam. We tried again on a Sunday and looked at some of the sights along the Duna.

But now we’re home again — that’s the best part of every trip: the return to home :-)

I’ve home after having spend nearly 14 days in Hungary. It seams that the world has been busy while I’ve been away — I’ve just finished reading over 300 mails :-) I also need to download 163 MB from my local Debian-mirror, as the developers from around the world has been rather busy… But that’ll have to wait until later.

Yikes! Yesterday we discovered a snake on our balcony! It was about a meter long (three feet) and had a green-brown colour. We don’t know if it’s dangerous — it’s kind of scary :-/ It’s also a bit strange how it has ended up on the balcony, as it’s two meters up in the air. But it has probably climbed the wall, as it’s made up of some rough bricks with crack it them.

It’s now been 14 hours since we last saw the snake, so we assume that it has found it’s way down again in the course of the night. Let’s hope it wont bother us again.

(We never saw the snake again.)

Today we drove to the Hungarian capital, Budapest. On our way back we saw no less than three accidents. Luckily it seamed that no people were injured, but the cars involved were more or less destroyed.

Compared with Danish motorists, Hungarian drivers take a lot of chances. People are in a lot of hurry and don’t miss the slightest chance to overtake us when we’re driving behind a slow lorry. It’s often only in the very last second that they manage to return to their own lane again… Most of the time it goes well, but not always it seams.

Today we drove to the city Kecskemét where we ate some really good pizzas at a place called Labirintus. (Unfortunetely their webpage isn’t as good as their food.) The meal ended up costing about 2500 Ft which is about 10 USD! And that includes soft drinks for my mom, my dad, my little brother, and me! It’s amazing how little food costs here in Hungary.

Also, the meals at McDonald are also much cheaper than in Denmark — as much as 50-60% under the Danish price. At restaurants we could order a big Coca-Cola for under a dollar. In Denmark it would have costed more than three times as much.

After we had seen the town we drove further south to see the Putza, which is the Hungarian plains. There we saw a horseshow where the riders demonstrated how they had full control over the horses, even when the whips were sounding right above their heads — impressive.